Amazon SAA-C01 Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Amazon SAA-C01 Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  A company's development team plans to create an Amazon S3 bucket that contains millions of images. The team wants to maximize the read performance of Amazon S3. Which naming scheme should the company use?

  A. Add a date as the prefix.
  B. Add a sequential id as the suffix.
  C. Add a hexadecimal hash as the suffix.
  D. Add a hexadecimal hash as the prefix.
  D. Add a hexadecimal hash as the prefix.

• Question 32:

  A Solutions Architect has been given the following requirements for a company's VPC:

  The solution is a two-tiered application with a web tier and a database tier.

  All web traffic to the environment must be directed from the Internet to an Application Load Balancer.

  The web servers and the databases should not obtain public IP addresses or be directly accessible from the public Internet.

  Because of security requirements, databases may not share a route table or subnet with any other service.

  The environment must be highly available within the same VPC for all services.

  What is the minimum number of subnets that the Solutions Architect will need based on these requirements and best practices?

  A. 2
  B. 3
  C. 4
  D. 6
  B. 3

• Question 33:

  A Solutions Architect is designing an elastic application that will have between 10 and 50 Amazon EC2 concurrent instances running, dependent on load. Each instance must mount storage that will read and write to the same 50 GB folder. Which storage type meets the requirements?

  A. Amazon S3
  B. Amazon EFS
  C. Amazon EBS volumes
  D. Amazon EC2 instance store
  B. Amazon EFS

• Question 34:

  An application server needs to be in a private subnet without access to the Internet. The solution must retrieve and upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket. How should a Solutions Architect design a solution to meet these requirements?

  A. Use Amazon S3 VPC endpoints
  B. Deploy a proxy server
  C. Use a NAT Gateway
  D. Use a private Amazon S3 bucket
  A. Use Amazon S3 VPC endpoints

• Question 35:

  A company needs to store data for 5 years. The company will need to have immediate and highly available access to the data at any point in time, but will not require frequent access. What lifecycle action should be taked to meet the requirements while reducing costs?

  A. Transition objects from Amazon S3 Standard to Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)
  B. Transition objects to expire after 5 years.
  C. Transition objects from Amazon S3 Standard to Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)
  D. Transition objects from Amazon S3 Standard to the GLACIER storage class.
  A. Transition objects from Amazon S3 Standard to Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA)

• Question 36:

  A web server will be provisioned on two Amazon EC2 instances with an Application Load Balancer.

  Which of the following configurations will allow traffic on HTTP and HTTPS when configuring a security group to apply to each of these servers?

  A. Allow all inbound traffic, with explicit denies on non-HTTP and non-HTTPS ports.
  B. Allow incoming traffic to HTTP and HTTPS ports.
  C. Allow incoming traffic to HTTP and HTTPS ports, with explicit denies to all other ports.
  D. Deny all traffic to non-HTTP and non-HTTPS ports
  B. Allow incoming traffic to HTTP and HTTPS ports.

• Question 37:

  A business team requires a structured storage solution to store all of a company's historical sales data. Currently there are 4 TB of data, which will grow to hundreds of terabytes within a few years. The team must be able to regularly run queries against the data using current business intelligence tools. Fast performance is required despite the dataset growth.

  Which solution should the company use?

  A. Amazon Redshift
  B. Amazon Aurora
  C. Amazon DynamoDB
  D. Amazon S3
  A. Amazon Redshift

• Question 38:

  A company plans to deploy a new application in AWS that reads and writes information to a database. The company wants to deploy the application in two different AWS Regions in an active-active configuration. The databases need to replicate to keep information in sync.

  What should be used to meet these requirements?

  A. Amazon Athena with Amazon S3 cross-region replication
  B. AWS Database Migration Service with change data capture
  C. Amazon DynamoDB with global tables
  D. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with a cross-region Read Replica
  D. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with a cross-region Read Replica

• Question 39:

  A Solution Architect has a two-tier application with a single Amazon EC2 instance web server and Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instances. The Architect is re-architecting the application for high availability by adding instances in a second Availability Zone.

  Which additional services will improve the availability of the application? (Choose two.)

  A. Auto Scaling group
  B. AWS CloudTrail
  C. ELB Classic Load Balancer
  D. Amazon DynamoDB
  E. Amazon ElastiCache
  A. Auto Scaling group
  C. ELB Classic Load Balancer

• Question 40:

  A Solutions Architect must create a solution whereby user access to multiple Amazon Aurora MySQL databases is securely managed with short-lived connection credentials. How can the Solutions Architect meet these requirements?

  A. Create a database user to run the GRANT statement with a short-lived token.
  B. Create the user account to use the AWS-provided AWSAuthenticationPlugin with IAM.
  C. Use AWS Systems Manager to securely save the connection secrets, and use the secrets while connecting.
  D. Use AWS KMS to securely save the connection secrets, and use the secrets while connecting.
  B. Create the user account to use the AWS-provided AWSAuthenticationPlugin with IAM.